Bug 15115

Summary:	/var/httpd should be used as documentroot
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo <carenas>
Component:	apache	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Version:	7.0	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2000-08-02 13:06:07 UTC

the old /home/httpd directory was broken because that won't permit /home to
be automounted.

/var is the right place as explained on FHS2.1

taking that BIND has been using /var/named as a human manipulable data
directory, apache should be using /var/httpd (named after the daemon name
as in bind) instead of the current /var/www.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-08-02 15:55:56 UTC

The name "httpd" is what Apache uses, and though I haven't tried most of the
alternative web servers, it's not guaranteed that they would have the same
process name.

Comment 2 Arenas Belon, Carlo Marcelo 2000-10-17 17:36:31 UTC

i'd started to like /var/www, i guess that it sounds more like /var/ftp and is
daemon agnostic :)

i've found /var/www used on other systems, so i guess it is the "standar" way to
go

you win :)

Comment 3 Bishop Clark 2001-11-08 18:08:00 UTC

Unfortunately, /var/www is in violation of FHS 2.2 : 5.1, as WWW data is neither logging data, a spool, transient files nor temporary files.

"
       /var contains variable data files.  This includes spool directories and
       files, administrative and logging data, and transient and temporary
       files.
"